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Listening to your Tuesday interview with Kim Wehle, I was shocked to hear her say that she had to teach basic critical thinking skills to third-year law students. I taught college-level philosophy for over 30 years, and saw a steady decline of such skills in my students. The Trump phenomenon has demonstrated to us that critical thinking skills in the general population are also not so well developed. But the fact that students can somehow reach their final year of law school and still be innocent of how to collect facts, appraise evidence, and engage in fundamental critical thinking skills absolutely stuns and frightens me.

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